Malawi vs Niger: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Malawi
15.00 million
in 2024
Niger
16.38 million
in 2024
Malawi rank
74th
Niger rank
72nd

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Malawi
  • Niger
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How they compare

Niger currently reports 16.38 million against 15.00 million in Malawi, a difference of 1.38 million.

That makes Niger's figure about 1.1 times Malawi's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Niger ahead.

Globally, Malawi ranks 74th and Niger ranks 72nd of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Mobile cellular subscriptions
Source
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
260 places, 13,039 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.